1. ECE 447: Course Organization Instructor:Michael Garcia, Engineering Bldg. 3707, 3708 mgarci10@gmu.edu Office hours: Wednesday, 7:20-8:20pm; Sunday, TBD Lab assistants: Michael Garcia (Monday) mgarci10@gmu.edu Mark Chaney (Tuesday)mchaney@gmu.edu Joel Potter (Wednesday)jpotter1@gmu.edu Aamer Almujehad (Thursday)aalmujah@gmu.edu

2. Digital Systems and Computers Curriculum ECE 331 ECE 332 ECE 280  C ECE 445  C ECE 447  C ECE 448 PHYS 261PHYS 265 or ECE 492 ECE 493 CS 222 CS 367 BS EE BS CpE Color code:  C

3. Digital system design technologies coverage in the CpE & EE programs at GMU FPGAsASICs Microprocessors & Microcontrollers ECE 445 ECE 447 ECE 586 ECE 448 ECE 511 ECE 611 ECE 431 Computer Organization Single Chip Microcomputers FPGA & ASIC Design with VHDL Digital Circuit Design Microprocessors Advanced Microprocessors Digital Integrated Circuits VLSI Design for ASICs ECE 545 Digital System Design with VHDL ECE 645 Computer Arithmetic ECE 680 ECE 681 ECE 612 Real-Time Embedded Systems Physical VLSI Design VLSI Test Concepts ECE 682

4. ECE 447: Course Prerequisites Required: 1.Knowledge of computer programming in C or C++, e.g., CS 222 or CS 367 (or former CS 211/CS 320), with a grade of C or better 2.Knowledge of digital system design and computer organization, e.g., ECE 331/332/445, all with a grade of C or better Recommended: Programming in assembly language

5. ECE 447: Instructional Team – Division of Tasks Course Instructor – Primary Responsibilities : Lectures Preparing and grading exams and quizzes Coordination of classroom lectures and lab exercises Coordination of work done by the TAs Enforcing consistent policies and grading standards Mid-semester student satisfaction survey Resolving conflicts and providing feedback to the TAs Holding office hours

6. ECE 447: Instructional Team – Division of Tasks Lab Instructors – Primary Responsibilities: Teaching hands-on sessions on how to use software, hardware and testing equipment needed for experiments Introductions to the lab experiments Grading student demonstrations and reports Preparing and grading midterm lab exam Holding office hours Development and testing of new lab experiments

7. ECE 447: Course Hours Lecture: Monday, Wednesday 5:55-7:10 PM, Enterprise Hall Room 276 Lab Sessions: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 7:20-10:00 PM, Engineering Building Room 3208 There will be no lab meetings in the first week of classes. In the second week of classes, Monday section students are requested to attend one of the other sections. Office Hours of Lab Instructors : TBD and posted on the web

8. ECE 447: Labs Section Participation Rules Students are welcome to attend any office hour sessions held by any member of the instructional staff Students should only attend the lab class section for which they are assigned, except in case of emergency. In such cases the student will be given second priority to lab resources after students assigned to the lab section. All experiment demonstrations must be done in the presence of the student’s TA, and be done exclusively during the class time of your section

9. ECE 447: Lab Section Enrollment (08/27) Monday - 11 Tuesday - 9 Wednesday - 10 Thursday - 9

10. ECE 447: Course Grading Labs40% Midterm Exam for the Lab10% Midterm Exams for the Lecture10% Quizzes & Homework15% Final Exam 25%

11. ECE 447: Course Materials Weekly Lecture Materials PowerPoint presentations, posted on the web - please print BEFORE each class. Supplemental lecture material will be presented on the whiteboard Required Texts: –Davies, MSP430 Microcontroller Basics –Kernighan & Ritchie, The C Language Supplementary Materials: –articles –manuals –catalogs –web sites - e.g., on-line catalogs, examples

12. ECE 447: Exams and Quizzes Midterm Exams: Software problems (C and assembly language) Hardware problems (block diagrams) Short answer Quizzes: ~5-15 minutes 1 or 2 questions on current material Closed books & notes

13. ECE 447: Texas Instruments MSP430 Texas Instruments MSP430FG4618/F2013 Experimenter's Board: –Two MSP430s FG4618 –LCD controller –Three Channel Internal DMA –116KB Flash, 8KB RAM –Successive Approximation 12-bit A/D Converter –Dual 12-bit D/A Converter –…much more F2013 –Sigma Delta 16-bit A/D Converter –2KB Flash, 128B RAM –Watchdog and Timers –Universal Serial Interface –Parallel I/O

14. ECE 447: Texas Instruments MSP430 Texas Instruments MSP430FG4618/F2013 Experimenter's Board: –JTAG Debugger Interface (USB Pod) –Softbaugh Segment LCD –Microphone –LEDs –Push Buttons –Capacitive Touch Pad –I/O Pin Headers for off-board device integration Texas Instruments MSP-FET430UIF –JTAG/USB flash emulation tool for all MSP430 –Supports both JTAG and Spy-Bi-Wire (2-wire JTAG) debug protocols.

15. ECE 447: Peripheral components Seven segment display MAN-72 12 button X-Y keypad DS1620 Serial temperature sensor 16 x 2 LCD display 74HC244 Octal buffer with 3-state outputs 74HC245 Octal bus transceiver 10 Kohm potentiometer

16. ECE 447: Lab development kit Lab development kit to be purchased by each student from Sue Davies, The Engineering Bldg., room 3915, using Mason Money only Cost TBD

17. ECE 447: MSP430 Software Development Code Composer Essentials – MSP430 C compiler, assembler and linker – Source Code Debugger – Integrated Visual Project Manager – Hardware and virtual breakpoints – Integrated editior Additional IAR Kickstart Environment is available for the MSP430.

18. ECE 447: Hardware Laboratory Several structured lab lectures and lab assignments during the semester. Devoted to the introduction of major functional units of MSP430 and several peripheral components (7-segment display, keypad, LCD, etc.) Taught by Lab Instructors, in the Engineering Building, Room 3208, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 7:20 to 10:00pm.

19. ECE 447: Challenging and Rewarding Breadth of knowledge –Software (C, assembly language, interrupts, polling, etc.) –Hardware (microprocessor, peripheral devices, address decoding, parallel I/O, serial communication, A to D) –Interfacing Hardware and Software together Practical Skills –Understanding component specifications –Laying out & mounting components –Debugging Hardware and Software Time Management